Dr. Stefan May

Academic staff

Department of Sociology

Office address:

Schellingstraße 9

Room 302

80801 Munich

Office hours:

by appointment only (via email)

Postal address:

Konradstraße 6

80801 Munich

Research Interests

  • Sociology of law
  • Sociology of religion
  • Political sociology
  • Sociology of risk

Vita

since 07/2013:
Academic staff at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi, Department of Sociology at LMU.
Teaching focus
: Sociology of law, sociology of religion, political sociology, sociology of risk
06/2013 - 12/2017:
Research project manager in the research project (BayFor/Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and the Arts): "Increasing Options by Productive Self-Limitation? Resilient Structures of Experimental Institutionalization"
since 07/2012:
Managing Director of the "Center for Lifescience and Law" (CLL) at the Faculty of Law of LMU.
since 10/2007:
Scientific Director of the interdisciplinary research centre "Munich Center on Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law" (MCG) at LMU.
02/2005 - 10/2006:
Permanent member of the EU Commission Expert Group. Co-editor of the final report: "Science and Governance. Taking European Knowledge Seriously."
07/2005:
Research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 536 ‘Theory of Reflexive Modernisation’ at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck.
07/2002:
Doctorate (Dr. Phil.) from LMU Munich in Sociology under Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck (Sociology – Primary Supervisor) and Prof. Dr. E. Grande (Political Science – Secondary Supervisor). Topic: Institutional boundary dissolution through ignorance. Professional sociological, legal theory and legal policy aspects of a theory of reflexive modernisation.
07/2002:
Research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 536 "Theory of Reflexive Modernization" at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck.
Research project (DFG): "Side effects in law: risk regulation of new risks using the example of biomedicine.”"
2001 - 2004:
Permanent member of the “Futur” expert consultation group of the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT), focusing on health policy.
07/1999:
Research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 536 "Theory of Reflexive Modernization" at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck.
Research project (DFG): "Institutional consequences of cognitive uncertainty and normative insecurity using the example of human genetics."
01/1999 - 07/1999:
Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at LMU
Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck.
Research project (VW): “Regulatory issues in human genetics.”
01/1997 - 12/1998:
Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck.
Research project (VW): “Standardization of professional conduct in the context of legal frameworks, professional self-regulation, and reflexive competence using the example of human genetics.”
02/1997:
Magister Artium in Philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen under Prof. Günther Figal and Prof. Manfred Frank..
1995:
Continuation of Philosophy studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
1994 - 1995:
Guest semester at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, focus: constitutional theory.
1992:
Continuation of major studies in Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
06/1992:
First state law examination.
1983:
Beginning of studies in law and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.
1982:
Scholarship holder of the Scholarship Program of the Protestant Church in Germany, Villigst e.V.
07/1981 - 10/1982:
Civilian service as a paramedic and caring for mentally/physically disabled children at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) in Bad Rehburg/Lower Saxony.
1981:
High school diploma from the modern language state Ratsgymnasium Stadthagen/Lower Saxony.
1961:
Born in Hildesheim.